EU debates need for NATO-style response to Russia 'hybrid attacks'
The proposal would let any member state trigger a coordinated response to sabotage, drone incursions and cyberattacks that fall below NATO’s Article 5 threshold.
- On Monday, European Union defense ministers met in Brussels to discuss establishing a NATO-style emergency mechanism to bolster coordination against hybrid attacks.
- European governments report that Moscow is stepping up sabotage and interference campaigns against Ukraine's backers as Kremlin troops struggle more than four years after the February 2022 invasion.
- Earlier this month, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen pitched an "emergency security protocol," while EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said discussions would examine "the broader strategy against hybrid attacks."
- Irish foreign minister Helen McEntee emphasized needing to "pre-empt possible escalations," while Finnish defense minister Antti Hakkanen urged stronger coordination; Brussels officials stated they can put "quite a lot on the table" to assist.
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The European Defence Ministers have begun discussions on the need to establish an emergency protocol to provide for what steps countries should take in the event of a hybrid attack that does not become an aggression. For now, more or less disguised hostile acts are the scenarios that have been most repeated in European territory, where, for example, drones of unknown origin have repeatedly disrupted operations at airports across the EU.
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Europe needs to be reassembled "more quickly and more effectively", recognised the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (EU), Kaja Kallas, after a meeting with the Ministers of Defence of the Twenty-Seven in which they have addressed the increase in the hybrid attacks of Russia on Community territory.
For the first time, a NATO-style proposal to counter Russian hybrid attacks in the future is being discussed. Member states are "skeptical" and lack "elaboration" on the proposal.
At a meeting in Brussels, the defence ministers should discuss a new protocol which is based on the operation of NATO, with some doubts.
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